Événement

Lectures and performances every Thursday during the exhibition by Fabienne Audéoud, Rosi Braidotti, Louise Briggs, Catherine Corringer, Dorothée Dupuis, Christophe Fiat, Géraldine Gourbe, Gabriela Jauregui, Anne Kawala, Elisabeth Lebovici, Sylvère Lotringer, Laurence Viallet, and Matias Viegener.

Join us at the Galerie de la Friche la Belle de Mai, 2nd floor Tour, 41 rue Jobin, 13003 Marseille.

When Addictions Take Form
A Crossed Lecture by Dorothée Dupuis and Géraldine Gourbe

When Addictions Take Form inaugurates the evenings (lecture, talk, and performance) as part of the exhibition Ruling ‘n’ Freaking. Dorothée Dupuis and Géraldine Gourbe will present the challenges of the collaborative project K.Acker: The Office, a postfeminist approach blending philosophy and exhibition curating through a unique reading of the texts of Kathy Acker, an American Jewish author closely associated with William Burroughs, David Antin, Avital Ronell, Sylvère Lotringer, and others.

In the cultural and activist context of New York in the 1970s and 1980s, Kathy Acker developed sensitive and political forms of representation that resonate with the complex relationships of self-control and total surrender found in addictive behaviors. This interpretative approach to Kathy Acker’s texts particularly echoes in contemporary visual and conceptual productions, as suggested by the exhibition Ruling ‘n’ Freaking. The presentation will conclude with a discussion with the public.

A Writing Through Which “Resignation Becomes Outdated*”
A Reading of Selected Texts Interpreted by Laurence Viallet and Catherine Corringer

Laurence Viallet, the French editor of three novels by Kathy Acker (Sang et Stupre au Lycée, La vie enfantine de la tarentule noire, Grandes espérances et Don Quichotte translated by Laurence Viallet), as well as authors known for their cruel and impactful intensity, such as Peter Sotos, Osvaldo Lamborghini, Sylvère Lotringer, etc., will revisit the literary deconstruction of a powerful personality with riot girl traits from the New York scene of the late 1970s and 1980s, navigating between poetry and 19th-century European literature, poststructuralist philosophy, and conceptual art.

Catherine Corringer, an actress, performer, and post-porn feminist filmmaker, will read several selected excerpts from Don Quichotte for this evening.

*Gilles Châtelet spoke of Herbert Marcuse’s writings in these terms.

Conference on a New York Made in Kathy Acker
With Sylvère Lotringer

Sylvère Lotringer:
Born in France, philosopher, literary critic, and professor at Columbia University (NY). Sylvère Lotringer is a literary critic and cultural theorist. A contemporary of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, and Michel Foucault, he is known for bringing French Theory to avant-garde American literary, artistic, and architectural movements, particularly through his journal Sémiotexte. He is also recognized for his interpretations of this same French Theory in the context of the 21st century. A key interpreter of Baudrillard’s theories, Sylvère Lotringer is the inventor of the concept of “extrapolationism,” a way of describing the new hyperbolic global landscapes conceptualized by Baudrillard and Virilio. His latest work, À satiété, was published by Laurence Viallet Editions in 2006.

Action Poetry Evening
With Anne Kawala and Louise Briggs

Join us at the Galerie de la Friche for an evening of action poetry with Anne Kawala and Louise Briggs, who will offer a fresh perspective on the project K.Acker: The Office through a performance and a reading of critically unique texts. Island journeys, memory soundtracks, reconfigurations of the muse/artist relationship, and confounding, polyglot epistolarity will form the foundation of this literary hour spent in our company: a burst of lyricism before you dive into your (overwhelming) Thursday evening activities!

Les aventures d’Orphée Foëne (and Juan de Lisboa) at Dos Romeros, an exclusive performance by Anne Kawala (FR), and Cher y, chère x, a reading of fictional and critical texts by Louise Briggs (GB) following a brief residency at Triangle at the end of April 2011.

Reading - Performed Kathy Acker Has Heart
By Christophe Fiat (Unpublished Text - Commissioned by actOral / Montévidéo for A Vous de Lire!)

Reading Around Kathy Acker, Selected Excerpts,
Voicing by Hubert Colas, Performed by Thierry Raynaud

Christophe Fiat:
Born in 1966, French, writer, performer, and director.
To paraphrase Johnny Thunders, who said, “I only play rock’n’roll for kids to dance,” Christophe Fiat could say, “I just write books to make kids read.” And in the process, clear their heads of the overwhelming nostalgia of the past (“Things were definitely better last week”) from the soft-minded folks of the last century, or the “You have to choose between suffering or working” imposed by the finance boomers. Taking the codes of pop culture for himself, Christophe Fiat draws his inspiration from the fringe cultures (pornography, horror), those that cultural mandarins dismiss as “subculture.” Fiat demonstrates that, first, subculture is also art and, second, it is primarily the sense of style. Style as a meaningful, rebellious, and revolting practice. This is how he brings his reflection and performance practice towards life and transgression. Using the breath of the epic, Fiat infuses it with fun, eroticizing the genre. Cynics in need of an electric shock may see it as an adolescent pose. Why not? Christophe Fiat, the eternal teenager. Yes, as long as people believe in metaphors.

Hubert Colas:
Author, director, and set designer.
In 1988, he founded Diphtong Cie and staged several of his texts (Temporairement épuisé, Nomades, La Brûlure, La Croix des oiseaux, Sans faim…, published by Actes Sud-Papiers). His first play Temporairement épuisé quickly established him as an essential author of his generation as well as a leading director of actors. From 1998 onward, in resonance with his work as an author, Hubert Colas explored the languages of Witold Gombrowicz (Mariage), Christine Angot (Nouvelle Vague and La fin de l’amour), Sarah Kane (Purifiés and 4.48 Psychose), Martin Crimp (Face au Mur, Avis aux femmes d’Irak), Sonia Chiambretto (CHTO Trilogie), Rainald Goetz (Jeff Koons). In March 2005, he translated and directed Hamlet by Shakespeare at the Théâtre National de Marseille - La Criée, a production later presented at the 59th Avignon Festival.
Through his constantly renewed approach to texts, Hubert Colas celebrates theatrical writing in all its diversity. But it is the time of the performance that is at the heart of his concerns. The research and rehearsal process is entirely focused on the upcoming exchange: the encounter with the audience. His approach to the stage is direct and unambiguous.
In January 2001, Hubert Colas founded montévidéo, a creation center dedicated to contemporary writing in Marseille. With montévidéo, he gives a unique resonance to contemporary writing and encourages the intersection of artistic disciplines. In 2002, he initiated actOral, an international festival of arts and contemporary writing, which each year highlights writers whose practices span fields such as theater, fiction, poetry, and essay, interrogating the notions of contemporary writing and stage writing.
In 2007 and 2008, Hubert Colas was an associate artist at the Théâtre National de La Colline, where he presented Sans faim & Sans faim… (2) (both his works) in March 2008, followed by Face au Mur by Martin Crimp in November. In the 2009-2010 season, he was an associate artist at Le Lieu Unique in Nantes and presented Le Livre d’Or de Jan, a work he also wrote, at the 63rd Avignon Festival. In November 2009, he created 12 Soeurs slovaques, the final part of Sonia Chiambretto’s CHTO Trilogie, at the Théâtre de la Cité internationale in Paris. On March 16-17, 2011, he will create Kolik by Rainald Goetz at the Centre Pompidou-Metz.

Closing night

To close this exhibition, we have chosen to host a special evening featuring several speakers for our great pleasure, with a rich and varied program that includes a lecture by Elisabeth Lebovici, a video contribution by Rosi Braidotti, a Skype contribution by Gabriela Jauregui, and a performance by Fabienne Audéoud to finish on a high note!